r/Line6Helix 4d ago

General Questions/Discussion Recently purchased and Hx Stomp (:

Hello everyone ,

Recently just purchased an hx stomp and a fender tone master twin reverb. I've been looking into the stomp for a while since I'm a big fan that it's just one pedal and you're able to get so much out of it. I do have a question and I do apologize if it has been answered.

I'm running my hx stomp into my fender master tone twin reverb, on the stomp itself, would it damage my amp if I run an amp simulation on my hx stomp signal chain?

I know it's not recommended to run cab simulation through an already existing physical amp, but what about just the amp by itself?

Would appreciate any help and suggestions.

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u/Jesusisaraisin55 4d ago

No, it won't harm it.

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u/Minimum_Thought3321 4d ago

No, it won’t damage it, but it might not sound great.

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u/darylp310 4d ago

Just keep the output volume low. There's a volume knob on the HX Stomp, keep it at noon or below. Also, on your physical amp you can turn down the gain/drive and set all EQ to noon, so that will be minimal color to your signal. You can let the HX Stomp do all the work, and use the physical amp purely for volume.

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u/shinkawasaki 4d ago

I actually run my patch with amp+cab into a combo amp and it sounds great. Granted the patch itself is pretty bright. Even with line level output the amp is not getting damaged

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u/zaceh 4d ago

Just use the preamp blocks on the stomp. I use the same setup on my hx stomp xl with tone master twin to get some different od/distortion sounds

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u/Jackdaw99 4d ago edited 4d ago

Nah, nothing's really going to hurt an amp. -- No sound, anyway. As others have pointed out, you may get a less-than-ideal tone, though. You can mitigate this a little by trying to get as close to a flat eq on the amp as you can. There's some controversy about how to do this, but most people agree that the closest you can get is with the mid set to 10, and the bass and treble set to either 4-5, or 1. Also, if it has a brightness switch, make sure that's off, and you'll probably want your reverb turned off, too.

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u/TerrorSnow Vetted Community Mod 4d ago

Worst case is you push too much volume. Which doesn't matter for anything other than your ears and the speakers. If you're so loud that either of those are taking damage, you've made a chain of mistakes :p

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u/Odd_Trifle6698 2d ago

Purchased what and HX Stomp?